Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonder. He is the most professional of revolutionists, with a finished technique of backhanded delicacy, and last week his activities were of unusual interest. Trotsky let it be known last month that he was going to have to leave Norway, and was afraid of hospitality proffered him by Mexico, lest he fall victim in its wilds to Stalinist agents. Last week, having established his unenthusiastic attitude toward Mexico in headlines, Comrade Trotsky quietly asked the pro-Stalin and highly radical Mexican Government to make its informally proffered hospitality official. This was promptly done by President Lazaro Cardenas, and Russia...
...foreign service from taking alien wives. The order was in accord with the State Department's anxiety over heightening national animosities, which has caused widespread reshuffling of its representatives who seemed likely to be unduly affected by attachments in the lands of their assignments Italy, France, Brazil, Mexico, Belgium Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Portugal and Turkey have similar regulations against diplomatic marriages to aliens. But most informed observers traced the U. S. order's origin to the inconvenience to which Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt was put during his Ambassadorial stay in Moscow...
...with a job as field collector working on mammals and reptiles. Since then he has collected live animals for the New York Zoological Park, U. S. Nationa Zoological Park, been field collector for the British Museum, U. S. Biological Sur vey, National Museum, traveled in Italy Mexico and France, becoming "the second American to trap in Europe." An early photographer of wild animals, he has pursued them throughout the West especially in the deserts, gathering material for cowboy stories and visiting more than 20 Indian tribes...
...embalmed, but Ward's does not advertise for cats lest owners of lost pets take umbrage. Few years ago when the Rochester zoo elephant died, Ward's bought the carcass, macerated and stripped off the flesh, sold the skeleton piecemeal. .The best human skeletons now come from Mexico since he U. S. S. R. has forbidden their exportation. Inferior ones are bought from India and Japan...
...States, 22 have direct access to tidewater. Busy though far inland are such U. S. ports as Houston, Tex., 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico; Portland, Ore., 112 miles, and Seattle, Wash., 143 miles from the Pacific; New Orleans, 107 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi...